This article focuses on the conditions of emergence of food quality in Western European rural areas, and confronts the trajectories of agricultural areas with their capacity to develop qualification systems for products. We use an original methodology crossing agricultural and quality typologies...

Fresh produce growers are the main source of food contamination by chemical pesticides. In their choice of farming practices, producers are influenced by market forces as well as public and private safety regulations – or “macro-drivers” – as opposed to farm-level micro-drivers. Growers...

[eng] The food multinationals are the active actors of the globalisation process of the world economy. By diversifying their products and markets, and by an international expansion of their markets they adopt new strategies to pull themselves up in world ranking and to maximise their profits in...